You don't need a frog to play leap-frog," he said.
When Tommy Fox crawled out upon the bank, dripping wet, the leap-frog players were nowhere to be seen.
A really good leap-frog player ought to be able to jump over three people at a time.
Illustration: 9 Playing Leap-Frog] 9 Playing Leap-Frog There was great joy in the woods.
The child laughed and ran up the path to the big-house, stopping a moment on the way to mimic a bull-frog that was bellowing at a tremendous rate near the spring.
Hit look mighty easy ter ole Brer Bull-frog settin' on de bank, en all Brer Fox kin do is ter shake he fist en grit he toof, w'iles Brer Rabbit sail off wid de fish.
I don't believe you'd be a bit afraid if I put a frog on your neck.
By almost sleight-of-hand Irene suited the deed to the word, for a cold frog of enormous size suddenly began to crawl along Rosamund's neck.
Many an eye was turned towards the shore, where a game of leap-frog or some other amusement could be indulged in, but not a spot appeared on which they could land.
On a decaying log sat a handsomefrog with a panel of green, of so vivid a tint as to seem as though freshly enamelled, neatly let into his glistening brown back.
Shoals of little fish darted in and out among the rushes, and on every patch of floating weed a tiny frog sat and croaked.
He say to me, 'Reinhold, you get damage all right; dotfrog haind't blocked dot time.
Dot frog he's not blocked dere dot time; der law say dey block dosefrog all der time, huh?
Dixon, McGee and Bundy, justices, all thought the unblocked frog was the proximate cause; they argued that if the frog had been blocked, Koerner could not have caught his foot in it.
One of Marriott's witnesses, a stalwart young mechanic, unmarried and with no responsibilities, testified positively that the frog in which Koerner had caught his foot had no block in it; he had examined it carefully at the time.
The first reflex is automatic, and so no doubt is the second, since the frog is decerebrate.
The tree-frog blew his alto horn; the jar-fly clashed his tinkling cymbals; the woodpecker rattled his kettledrum, and the locust jingled his tambourine.
He tuned for fifteen minutes, and it was like a melodious frogpond during a shower of rain.
The bursar, disturbed apparently from his early breakfast, stood robed in an ancient dressing-gown, with the Times in his hand, on which he was balancing a frog as yellow as himself.
The change in coloration in this frog is noteworthy.
The frog was found in humid upper montane forest characterized by large oaks supporting many bromeliads and heavy growths of mosses.
The owl had commenced his mournful hooting again; and the tree-frog piped up louder than ever, Dick noticed with considerable satisfaction, for he hoped the sounds would muffle any slight noise he would chance to make.
The life in the fertilizing principle of the frog is sacred to frog eggs, and is lifeless in contact with any other.
As the time draws near for the dropping of the few eggs into the water, the male frog so places himself that the moment the eggs are being laid, he pours over them, one by one, as they fall into the water, the fertilizing fluid.
I may add that this frogis a great musician in the breeding season, but that as soon as the tadpoles are hatched out he loses his voice entirely, and does not recover his manly croak till the succeeding spring.
There is a common kind of frog in France, Belgium, and Switzerland, which does not extend to England, but which closely recalls the habits of the stickleback and the pipe-fish.
In Venezuela, however, there dwells a frog with well developed maternal instinct.
Moreover, instinct has taught the frog the need of extreme caution in the act of fertilization.
But, like other life, although the frogs may vary a good deal within frog limits, none of them can escape their own limits and enter into those of any other life.
As a feeder the frog relies upon animal life, which he expertly seizes with a tongue fastened by the wrong end, as compared with our tongues.
Although from the moment the gills disappear the frog is a true land animal, he is obliged, on account of the fish-like character of his young, to lay his eggs in the water.
Lizards and other reptiles make an obvious advance on the frog type; they lay relatively few eggs, but they begin to care for their young.
I have seen them as much as a couple of yards long, lying loose on the grass where the frog lays them.
But on one occasion I found a frog quite half gone down the throat of its dread persecutor: I compelled the snake to disgorge it, but the frog died soon afterwards.
Now and then a peculiar squealing sound may be heard proceeding from the grass; on looking about it is found to be made by a frog in the extremity of mortal terror.
The frog struggles and squeals, but it is in vain; the snake, if once he takes hold, will gradually get him down.
It is said that when ice protects the fish herons eat the frogs in the water-meadows; but they can scarcely find many, for though I have been over the water-meadows day after day for snipe, I seldom saw a frog about them here.
The frog being a broad creature, wide across the back--at least twice the width of the snake--it appears surprising how the snake can absorb so large a thing.
Now it so happened that the old frog from Kyoto and the "lion's cub" from Osaka started each from his home at the same time.
And so to this day the frog in the well knows not and believes not in the "great ocean!
Mrs. Frog wept a great deal, but finally drying her eyes with her paper handkerchief she declared that she would count the hours on her fingers until he came back.
Now about the same time, an old Osaka frog had become restless and dissatisfied with life on the edge of a lotus pond.
Now every one knows that a frog has eyes mounted in that part of his head which is front when he is down, and back when he stands up.
If the lotus springs from mud, why shouldn't a frog become a man?
Mrs. Frogand the whole family of young frogs in a chorus.
She said that she was a messenger from the Frog King, and declared that the Frog King wished to have his daughter marry young Sia.
Note: "Little frog men," Wa Dsi, is the derogatory name which the North Chinese give the Chinese of the South on occasion.
When some one among the people had angered the god, he first tried to induce young Sia to speak for him, and sent his wife and daughter to the Frog Princess to implore her aid.
And the Frog Princess also returned, and they lived together happily and contented as before.
But theFrog King sent word to Mistress Giang: "Young Sia is my son-in-law.
What can the old frog do to me after all, if I anger him, save call misfortunes upon me and take my life!
The Sia family has many descendants, whom the people call "the little frog men.
A messenger stepped up to him and told him, on the part of the Frog King that the latter urgently requested Sia to come to him.
The only thing we had to be thankful for so far was that the Frog had apparently vanished from the scene.
I looked back to see if the Frog was gaining on us.
Just then the red roadster did pass us, going slowly, and the Frog kept his eyes riveted on Nyoda all the while.
The Frog turned around in the seat, saw us streaming across the square, and evidently decided that the chase was too hot, for he jammed on the brakes and jumped from the car, leaving the motor still running.
She was sure it was her uncle after her, and then I had to explain that the Frog had been following us all the way from Toledo, before we had taken her in.
The Frog looked around again, saw us gaining on him, and then the red roadster shot forward with many times the speed of ours and disappeared around a bend in the road.
We were not on the road to Chicago, we knew, because the road we had followed out of Wellsville in pursuit of the Frog had gone off at right angles to that road.
The Frogwas Sherry, Nyoda's camp serenader of the summer before.
Sahwah is not nervous, however, and to her the voice of a frog is simply the voice of a frog and not the wail of a banshee, and anyway, her mind was occupied with pulling her feet out of the mud in the road and setting them in again.
There was one man in it and he was the Frog I had seen goggling at Nyoda in the dining-room at Toledo.
We didn't know whether the Frog knew we were after him or not, but it seemed to us that the throbs began to grow fainter after a time as if the car were getting farther away.
But the whole conduct of the Frogsince the beginning was such a puzzle that we could make neither head nor tail out of it, so we gave it up and turned our attention to the scenery.
The house was on a corner and it seemed to me, as I sat at the table that I saw the Frog walking down the side street.
Frog and Lewis Baboon, with his arms akimbo, in great concern to keep Lewis and Nic.
At last Lewis pulled out a pair of great tailor's shears and clipt a corner for himself, which he said was a manor that lay convenient for him, and left Frog and me the rest to dispose of as we pleased.
How Bull and Froggrew jealous that the Lord Strutt intended to give all his custom to his grandfather Lewis Baboon.
Frog had given his word that he would meet the above-mentioned company at the "Salutation," to talk of this agreement.
Frog never will; let us stick to our point, and we'll manage Bull, I'll warrant ye.
Frog for his share of the ordinary expenses of the suit .
I think I need not tell you how much Frog has been obliged to our family from his childhood; he carries his head high now, but he had never been the man he is without our help.
Frog pulled his bill out of his pocket, and began to read.
The rabbit seeing no danger accosted the frog thus: "Brother, what are you doing?
This did not harm the frog as it could live under water as well as on land, but the rabbit did not know that, so he believed he had drowned his brother the frog.
The frog then took the lungs of one of the deer and put it out to freeze.
The frog crept up to the tent but was afraid to enter so he began to play with the door flap of the tent to make a noise to attract the attention of the rabbit within.
The frog in the meanwhile, killed all of the beavers and tied them together on a string, then slowly crawled to the rabbit's home with his burden on his back.
The frog directed the rabbit to make a snowshoe for the one foot of the frog.
The frog answered, "I can not walk as my leg is too sore.
The rabbit was pleased to hear the frog was such a great hunter, and gladly offered to carry the frog to the lodge of the beavers that some food could be procured.
The rabbit took the frog and giving him a toss threw him on his back and said: "This is the way I will carry you.
The frog said, "No, it was you who gave me such a hard push that you have hurt me in the side.
Being timid he crept up to the side of the tent and peeped through a small hole, and saw inside of it a frog sitting near the fire.
The frog coolly inquired, "What is the matter that you are so scared?
The officer caught the frog and carried it before the king.
One day a bird came to Sinukuan's court, and asked Sinukuan to punish the frog for being so noisy during the night, while it was trying to sleep.
The frog said he croaked for fear of the turtle, who always carried his house with him.
When he approached nearer, he saw that it was a big frog swimming helplessly among the duck-weeds.
The frog answered respectfully, "Sir, I was only crying for help, because the turtle was carrying his house on his back, and I feared that I might be buried under it.
I now find that I have accumulated--as you suggested--three distinctly conflicting groups of data on nucleic acid synthesis of frog liver cells: 1.
Should you be interested, we now have an article in press on the Journal of Cellular Physiology entitled: "Nucleic acid synthesis in the frog liver cell: A definitive study.
The piece by which an object is attached to something, as the frog of a scabbard or the metal loop at the back of a buckle by which it is fastened to a strap.
The coarse, harsh sound uttered by a frog or a raven, or a like sound.
All round the lake the performers will be stationed," replied the frog pompously.
And I don't feel myself being turned into a frog yet; do you, Jeanne?
At that remark, Mr. Frog started violently That was exactly the trouble!
I’ll come back to-morrow and ask Mr. Frog to make me a waistcoat and trousers.
It is no secret that Mr. Frog was terribly afraid of Solomon Owl.
It was a true statement, too; because Mr. Frog had not yet discovered Solomon Owl’s exact whereabouts.
And he rose to his feet feeling very sheepish, for he knew that Mr. Frog had played a sly trick on him.
Oh, I wasn’t going away,” Solomon assured him with an odd look which made Mr. Frog shiver again.
It was no wonder that Mr. Frog swallowed rapidly sixteen times before he could say another word.
Mr. Frog couldn’t help wondering if it wasn’t he himself that Solomon Owl was going to attend to.
Perhaps Mr. Frog worked so fast that Solomon could not see what he was doing.
And since Jasper was a great dandy, and very particular Mr. Frog was taking special pains with his sewing.
Mr. Frogwas most uncomfortable—especially when Solomon looked at him.
Among the many curious and quaint animal specimens encountered by the writer in this region was an arboreal frog of startlingly beautiful colorings.
It is probable that the beautiful frog of so many glaring colors would have long since been exterminated by its many enemies and persecutors but for the poisonous and nauseous fluid ejected from its glands.
